Residential Property

A recent High Court case shows the dangers of negotiating in a dispute without legal representation. It also illustrates that an agreement which disposes of an interest in land does...

A right of way over land can only be exercised as a right for lawful purposes – it cannot legitimise conduct that would otherwise be unlawful. This rather obvious...

A High Court ruling has underlined the dangers inherent in purchasing property at auction without taking proper legal advice. A disabled woman is facing a financial catastrophe after she made...

A dispute between two landowners that lasted several years seems to have finally ended, with one of them being fined for failing to comply with a court order. The...

In a ruling which illustrates the pitfalls of inaccurate land sale particulars, members of a family who sold their vegetable patch to a developer for more than £150,000 have been...

Although it has been widely reported that recent changes to the law make squatting in residential premises a criminal offence for the first time, this is not strictly true. Refusing...

A property owner whose Victorian townhouse was severely affected by subsidence has failed to convince the Court of Appeal that the local authority and a housing association (the respondents) should...

When the owners of houses that were built on piles discovered that the walls of their properties were cracking, they established that the reason for the problem was that the...

When the developer of a block of flats (who owned the freehold) decided to relocate the parking spaces allocated to the tenants so that it could build another block of...

It is common for rights of way over property to be reserved if the seller retains other land in the vicinity of the sold land to which he wishes to...